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POETS! - Sharon Doubiago + Bill Bradd, followed by an open mic

celebrating the release of Time's Language: Collected Poems from Wings Press Ultimately, there are two kinds of poets: those who have a long vitae and...

Roni Ben Hur - Harvie S - Sylvia Cuenca

Booksmith hosts a special evening of readings by Maxim Loskutoff (Come West and See) and Mikkel Rosengaard (The Invention of Ana). Please join us!     Come West and...

Giants: The Global Power Elite By Peter Phillips Introduction by William I. Robinson published by Seven Stories Press Who holds the purse strings to the...

Lisa Hanawalt discusses her new graphic novel, Coyote Doggirl. Praise for Coyote Doggirl "Lisa's work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one's imagination. She...

celebrating two new books: Be With - by Forrest Gander - from New Directions Widows Notebook - by Jonathan Santlofer - from Penguin Books about Be With: Drawing...

Join us for this reading by Bay Area poets MK Chavez and Heather June Gibbons. We'll be helping to debut the first full-length book, Her Mouth As Souvenir, by...

The Bindery hosts a very special evening of readings with one of San Francisco's longest-running writing groups! It all started in 2003, when some friends in...

Denise Clifton discusses her new book, Tables from the Rubble: How the Restaurants That Arose After the Great Quake of 1906 Still Feed San Francisco Today....

Author Terry Tarnoff discusses his novel The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker with special focus on the story of the Spear of Longinus.

Valerie Wallace discusses her new poetry collection, House of McQueen with Daniel Handler and Kevin Simmonds. Praise for House of McQueen “How does a writer begin to...

The Bindery hosts a special afternoon of readings from new books by Katya Apekina (The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish), Bryan Hurt (Everyone Wants to be Ambassador...

Featured readers tba Curated by Aakash Tyagi

Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street Sunday, September 23rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Jackson Burgess as he reads from his newest poetry collection...

Booksmith hosts a special evening with Katie Ford, to celebrate her new poetry collection If You Have to Go. Joining her for a reading and conversation is the poet Katie...

Please join us for a lively discussion about “Milena o el femur mas bello del Mundo” by Jorge Cepeda Patterson To join the book group...

Croatian writer Dubravka Ugresic discusses her new novels, Fox and American Fictionary. Praise for Fox "Ugresic is also affecting and eloquent, in part because within...

We That Are Young published by Alfred Knopf A stunning debut novel, a modern-day King Lear set in contemporary India: the tale of a battle for power...

The summer's over and light is getting dimmer in the evenings. Let's gather a bunch of writerly souls together to shed a little light on...

City Lights in conjunction with the Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in San Francisco present Léonora Miano celebrating the release of Season...

The Poetry Center's Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series debuts September 2018 with a two-day series by poet-translator-activists Jen Hofer and John Pluecker, who collectively organize Antena, a language justice and language experimentation collaborative,...

Booksmith hosts Zulema Renee Summerfield for her debut novel, Every Other Weekend. Please join us!   The year is 1988, and America is full of broken homes. The...

Christian Kracht reads from his new novel, The Dead. Praise for Christian Kracht “Imperium is astonishing and captivating, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time.” ―Karl...

Written in taut, mesmerizing, often hilarious scenes drawn from 2004 through 2009, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on...